Career profile: Emma Summers, visual artist

Emma Summers has over 12 years' experience as a professional artist and continues to create and exhibit nationally. Emma is currently Artist-in-Residence at Hereford Art College. Ellie Stevenson talks to her about exhibiting and being a self-employed artist.
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Emma Summers has over 12 years’ experience as a professional artist and continues to create and exhibit nationally. She has a Masters degree from the renowned Centre for Ceramic Studies, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (Distinction, 2002).

Emma has exhibited her work in a range of art galleries and alternative spaces, including the Ice House in Holland Park, The Custard Factory, Birmingham, St Pancras Station, London and The Triskel Art Centre, Cork. In 2004 she exhibited Anatomy of Exiles at the MAC in Birmingham – this was part of a programme inspired to highlight the plight of international refugees. She has also exhibited at the Old Truman Brewery in London. The exhibition (Every time I see the sea) was held by the charity Christian Aid to mark the first anniversary of the tsunami. Emma sees exhibiting as a vital, integral part of her continued development as an artist.

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Ellie Stevenson
About the Author
Ellie Stevenson is a freelance writer and former careers adviser and has lived in one of the largest and one of the smallest islands in the world. She has written for a number of magazines including The Lady, Local History Magazine and Worcestershire Now.